What makes the situation with Parliament the more disheartening is that this is the institution supposed to lead the line in defending the public interest, in raising issues of national importance and ...

Parliament has adopted a motion urging the government to recognise sickle cell disease as a major public health concern requiring urgent budgetary attention.

Senegal's parliament has approved a new law doubling to 10 years the maximum prison term for sexual acts by same-sex couples and criminalising the "promotion" of homosexuality. The measure was ...

President Museveni has urged leaders of the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) to focus on addressing local community challenges and exposing corruption, rather than spending excessive time ...

If you want to know the true condition of a nation, do not begin with the laws written in its statutes. Look instead at the confidence citizens place in the institutions meant to enforce them. Laws ...

The new law, which must still be signed by President Bassirou Diomaye Faye, passed by an overwhelming majority and makes same-sex relations punishable by up to 10 years in prison, amid a crackdown on ...

On Dec. 10, 2025, Uganda entered into one of the most consequential health partnerships in its recent history. At the Ministry of Finance headquarters in Kampala, senior officials from Uganda and the ...

Winnie Byanyima is one of them. In Uganda, they know her as the fiery opposition figure's wife, a three-time MP, and the woman who helped write their country's constitution. In global corridors, she ...

The candidates for the 16th National Assembly pledged to uphold the highest sense of responsibility before the Party, voters ...

The 2nd by-election of the 9th Parliament of the 4th Republic of Ghana is being held on Tuesday, March 3, 2026, to find a representative for the people of Ayawaso East after they lost their sitting ...

The MP fought hard for his Kipsigis people in Mau forest and was at one time arrested over alleged incitement. Trans Nzoia Governor George Natembeya, who was the Rift Valley Regional Commissioner at ...